Phrase Hound found 187 phrases and 7 compound words that contain spanish. The most common are listed below. Open spanish in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 187
- Spanish RoadA land route which was used from 1567–1620 for military supply and trade, and stretched from northern Italy to the Low Countries.
- Old SpanishSet of West Iberian language varieties spoken on the Iberian Peninsula from the 10th century until roughly the beginning of the 15th century, before a consonantic readjustment gave rise to the evolution of Modern Spanish, differentiating …
- Mexican SpanishA set of variations of the Spanish language as spoken in Mexico and in some parts of the United States and Canada, where there are communities of Hispanic origin influenced by North American Spanish-speaking media.
- Spanish NetherlandsThe southern part of the Low Countries (Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg) during and after the Eighty Years' War, ruled by Spain and lasting from 1581 to 1713.
- Spanish flyA supposed aphrodisiac extracted from the blister beetle Lytta vesicatoria; cantharidin, the active ingredient, a vesicant used as a defence by L. vesicatoria and other blister beetles.
- Spanish Sign LanguageA language that uses hands, facial expressions, and other bodily behavior to communicate both concrete and abstract ideas.
- Spanish GuineaA former colony of Spain in Central Africa, now called Equatorial Guinea.
- American SpanishAny of the varieties of Spanish used in the Americas.
- Spanish AmericaHispanic America
- Spanish GameSynonym of Ruy Lopez: A common chess opening, an Open Game characterized by the moves 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5, in which White moves king's bishop to the fifth rank.
- Spanish LakeAn unincorporated community and census-designated place in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
- Spanish MainThe mainland coast of Spanish America; the part of the Caribbean Sea crossed by Spanish ships in colonial times.
- Spanish TownA town, the parish capital of Saint Catherine parish, Jamaica.
- Spanish-speaking
- Judaeo-SpanishA Romance language, based on Old Spanish, and spoken almost exclusively by Sephardic Jews in Greece and Turkey.
- Spanish influenzaA form of influenza that spread to nearly every part of the world in a pandemic between 1918 and 1920, killing from 20 to 100 million people.
- Spanish OpeningSynonym of Ruy Lopez: A common chess opening, an Open Game characterized by the moves 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5, in which White moves king's bishop to the fifth rank.
- Spanish ArmadaThe fleet of warships sent by Philip II of Spain against England in 1588.
- Spanish dancerA species of nudibranch sea slug, Hexabranchus sanguineus, commonly growing up to a length of 25 centimetres (about 9.8 inches), with some in the Red Sea up to 40 centimetres (15.7 inches).
- Spanish redAn ocherous red pigment resembling Venetian red, but slightly yellower and warmer.
- Spanish jasmineA species of jasmine, Jasminum grandiflorum, native to much of subtropical Asia and eastern Africa.
- Spanish SpringsA census-designated place in Washoe County, Nevada, United States.
- Spanish mossA gray epiphyte that hangs down from trees, Tillandsia usneoides, native to the southeastern US and throughout humid tropical and subtropical parts of the Americas.
- Spanish chestnutCastanea sativa, a deciduous tree with edible deep brown nutlike fruits. The fruits have a little white, fluffy tail.
- Spanish sparrowPasser hispaniolensis, a small passerine bird in the family Passeridae
Compound words 7
- SpanglishA language blend of English and Spanish spoken by both Latinas, Latinos, and Anglo-Americans.
- SpanishnessThe quality or state of being Spanish.
- SpanishizeTo make Spanish; to impose the culture or norms of Spain upon.
- SpanishlyIn a Spanish manner; in a way characteristic of Spaniards.
- SpanishySomewhat Spanish; seemingly Spanish.
- SpanisherA Spanish person; Spaniard.
- Spanishersplural of Spanisher: A Spanish person; Spaniard.